I don't believe he has had a significan role in the development of Xiaomi. He was just a known face of unknown company. They tried to present their products in a manner of Apple and they needed some one to behave like Steve Jobs. Such approach may inspire indian tech geeks, but for sure no one in China or elsewhere in the world cares.
And perhaps they realized there is no sense to pay huge money to marketing puppet.
Any way, good luck to Hugo.

Zero, 23 Jan 2017Bad, but very bad news here since he was the only one who knew how to manage the comunity they... moreThe company will end just because one guy left? You do realise that things don't work that way?

he was fired, 23 Jan 2017It's pretty obvious that Xiaomi fired him because of their declining sales - less than Oppo an... moreYou do realise that the way they sold was much different compared to mi. It was their fault in first place to start race to bottom. Try giving a premium flagship product and price it like one while selling them at stores this worked wonders for the other 2 inspire of having way overpriced products compared to even Samsung like a p10 at 25k and 625 at 28k

It's pretty obvious that Xiaomi fired him because of their declining sales - less than Oppo and Vivo.
But I don't think that's fair! Fire him after only one failure?! Forgetting everything that he has done before?!

He understood that Xiaomi is not doing well against other Chinese brands in recent times.
When you work and dont earn your expected goals, you feel tired with your work. And thats what happened to him.